I’m young, but I’ve been around desktop computers since their inception, almost 20 years ago.

Unlike the generation after me, I witnessed the development of many technologies that they take for granted. It’s not that they don’t care, but ignorance is bliss, as they say.

I remember when the 486 Hz processor was the thing, and your family must have money to blow if your home had a computer - let alone one with 50 megabytes of hard disk space. When Intel released the Pentium line of processors, the world marveled.

While a lot of big computer advances were rocking the visible market, Microsoft was coding Windows 95.

But when it came out, it changed the face of PC computing forever.

Even the newest release of Microsoft’s popular Windows operating system, Vista, still has a lot of the same design ideas from the 95 release.

Looking at a universe where Apple and the Deathstar (AT&T) work together to put out the sexiest, hottest piece of technology, things look pretty good. Until you realize you paid a serious premium for that iPhone, and that you’re guaranteed to pay a $20/mo premium over the same service on ANY other phone.

Looking at these facts, one has to wonder if there’s anything out there, to sooth the tech-jones you get, looking at the iPhone.